Model comparison
Amazon Nova Micro vs Llama 4 Maverick
Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Maverick score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 56.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 51.1% for Amazon Nova Micro and 81% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper at $0.035 / $0.14 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.4 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 10K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.035 | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.14 | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 32 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 30.5 (#295), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | 1302 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 20.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 22.1 (#132), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 22.3% | 37.3% |
Reasoning Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 17.4 (#294), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | 1281 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 25.1% | — |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 34% | — |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| LiveBench | 29.6% | — |
Math Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 26.9 (#254), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 21.4% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1206 | 1299 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| LiveBench Math | 34.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 29.6 (#237), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 51.1% | 81% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.5% | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | 1184 | 1259 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| MMLU | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Micro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |
Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#239), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1186 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1209 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1238 | 1259 |
| LMArena German | 1192 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1154 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1150 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1185 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1225 | 1293 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 56.3 (#272), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 76% | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1267 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 48% | — |
Long Context Amazon Nova Micro leads
Amazon Nova Micro: 36.5 (#229), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1205 | 1280 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Amazon Nova Micro: 39.5 (#247), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1208 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1172 | 1267 |
| WildBench | 74.3% | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1178 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| LiveBench Language | 15.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Micro better than Llama 4 Maverick?
Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Maverick score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.4 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 4 Maverick?
Amazon Nova Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.035 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.
Is Amazon Nova Micro or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?
Amazon Nova Micro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 30.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Micro and Llama 4 Maverick share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Micro has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.